The e-commerce industry in Indonesia reached $81bn in 2024 and is projected to reach almost $170bn by 2029. To benefit from this trend, companies that sell their products via bricks-and-mortar stores are actively exploring online sales channels. While this can easily be achieved by partnering with e-commerce marketplaces like Shopee and Lazada, doing so reduces retail margins due to the take rate of these online channels. To preserve profitability and gain better control of the end-to-end retail experience, businesses ranging from multinational brands to SMEs are exploring the alternative of building an independent online retail presence and executing last-mile deliveries themselves. Unfortunately, ensuring consistent and reliable last-mile delivery is complex, given the high level of coordination required with third-party logistics companies and individual delivery riders.
Blitz offers a plug-and-play, quick commerce delivery capability to any manufacturer, retailer or logistics company. It achieves this through its delivery management platform that monitors daily delivery commitments, optimizes drop sequences and routes, manages delivery task assignments to riders, and tracks the real-time progress of each delivery. In order to ensure the lowest cost of delivery, Blitz also leases electric 2-wheelers to its clients to lower operating costs by 20-30% compared to petroleum-based 2-wheelers.
Each petrol-based 2-wheeler displaced by an electric 2-wheeler mitigates 0.4254 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per full year of operations. As of April 2024, Blitz has 439 electric 2-wheelers in its fleet that can mitigate 187 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent over the next 12 months.
Blitz was established in 2022 in Indonesia by its Founder and CEO, Saivya Chauhan. Saivya recognized that the trend of last-mile delivery electrification that began in India and China is now spreading in Southeast Asia. Indonesia is an excellent beachhead market for Blitz because of its growing last-mile delivery industry and its large base of more than 120 million active motorcycles.
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